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Like Me, a Mongrel Mouth production directed by Duncan Maurice, is strange. Grotesque. Unnerving. Disorienting. Confronting. And it's all around me.  The action plays out in…
Penny McNamee, one of Australia's rising stars, will be playing the practically perfect nanny Mary Poppins in Packemin's upcoming production at the Riverside Theatre from July 24 " August 8.…
Hayes Theatre Co and New Musicals Australia (NMA) have announced the two musicals that have been chosen to proceed to Stage Three of the NMA developmental process. The Detective's Handbook b…
AussieTheatre has a double pass to giveaway to More Female Parts at Arts Centre Melbourne on 30 June 2015. A must-see virtuoso one-woman theatre piece starring one of Melbourne's most …
Lady Rizo is our diva and we commune with her in the religion of glitter and cabaret. An established and well-respected cabaret performer from New York City, Lady Rizo is a Grammy winner, ha…
One of the best things about brightening up our Sundays together with Australian stage stars singing up a storm is realising exactly how many people, songs, and performances there are to sho…
"A community in crisis leads to doubt," the dinosaurs sing. And"they tell us"doubt leads to chaos. As the singing, dancing Triassic Parq community unravels, the dinosaurs' doubts pile up. Al…
There’s no official word yet, but it sounds like it might be happening:Â Kinky Boots, the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, might be on its way to Melbourne. This week the Herald …
The Adelaide Cabaret Festival have named stars Ali McGregor and Eddie Perfect as co-artistic directors of the biggest cabaret festival in the world. Perfect and McGregor, both of whom perfor…
Picture growing up as a minister’s son, and growing up to think that your place is somewhere in the world of modern Christianity: Thom Jordan did just that. And then he moved to Sydney…
As Melbourne rugs up for Winter Solstice, Hobart celebrates the last weekend of the Dark Mofo festival. Anne-Marie Peard had to come home to Melbourne, but there’s one more…
The Queensland Cabaret Festival is about to wind up another busy year on Queensland stages (June 10 " 20). Highlights of the 2015 festival featured some big names such as Tex Perkins, Mar…
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse would like to hear from anyone who has experienced, or has information regarding, child sexual abuse in institutions i…
We can be fairly sure that Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi wasn't completely happy with his opera Bajazet in the weeks before the première at Verona in 1735.  We know this because …
An ageing opera singer, a miniature horse and a background comedian walk into a pokey, underground performance space. It’s the setup to one of the most abstract cabaret acts of the…
It’s an exclusive club of the greats. Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse are all members, and all coincidentally died at 27 years old.…
It's 41 years since Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show first broke out of the lab and started blazing a glittery trail of mischief across the planet Earth. Since then, it has overrun its ow…
You can throw every interesting colour you want into the mixing pot but throw in too many any it'll always come out brown. MTC's Neon festival saw Dirty Pretty Theatre's The Lonely Wolf (or …
Creator of The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O’Brien, will be joining the Australian production in Melbourne for selected performances at the Comedy Theatre! Co-producers Howard Pan…
The Adelaide Cabaret Festival, where there are no rules, becomes a classroom in Hannah Gadsby's show, Art Lite. Armed with a lectern, a PowerPoint presentation and a nifty laser pointer, Gad…
Two decades worth of hits, innumerable studio albums, scandals, image revamps, an unwavering rock and roll lifestyle and delusions of grandeur. This could describe several well-known rock ba…
The well loved musical, The Sound of Music, will commence in Sydney at the Capitol Theatre on 13 December this year, followed by a season at Brisbane's Lyric Theatre from 11 March, 2016. We …
OMG you guys! WAAPA's mid year musical Legally Blonde is funny, hilarious and sassy. Director Jason Langley's prediction that Legally Blonde would "drag the young audience in" proved to be c…
The well loved musical, The Sound of Music, will commence in Sydney at the Capitol Theatre on 13 December this year, followed by a season at Brisbane's Lyric Theatre from 11 March, 2016. We …
It's not every day that you walk into a show and Spider-Man is playing you in with some ambient tunes. Just Spider-Man, chilling at a keyboard in full costume. Why Spider-Man? Who can tell &…
